Critical Appraisal Techniques for Healthcare Literature FutureLearn

Overview

In today’s clinical professions, staff are expected to keep up with fast-changing, evidence-based research in their own field and beyond.

On Critical Appraisal Techniques for Healthcare Literature at St George's, University of London by FutureLearn., you will learn critical appraisal techniques to evaluate the quality of healthcare research literature.

Key facts

• You will evaluate published papers, interrogate their methodologies, identify strengths and weaknesses and produce a balanced appraisal of papers to discuss with colleagues, patients, and academic bodies.

• You’ll assess the contributions of published papers to their research fields, and identify where there’s a need for further research.

What will you achieve?

• Identify an appropriate framework with which to appraise a published paper

• Evaluate the design, methods, analyses and conclusions of published papers

• Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of published papers to produce a balanced critical appraisal

• Assess the contributions made by published papers to the current state of knowledge in that field

• Identify recommendations for further research resulting from an analysis of published work in a specialist field